Daily Archives: Mar 6, 2023

Community Promotes Conservation To Protect Water Sources

Communities living in water catchment areas in Taita-Taveta County have asked the government to assist in safeguarding critical water sources in the region to save them from drying up as a result of destructive human activities.The chair of Mwamusha Wa...

US Warns About Increasing Use of Intermediaries to Evade Russia Sanctions

WASHINGTON — The Russian invasion of Ukraine has triggered an unprecedented wave of U.S. sanctions on Russia.In the year since the onslaught, the U.S. The Treasury Department has sanctioned about 2,400 entities and individuals, while the Commerce Depar...

Help Line For Gender-Based Violence Launched

Gender-based violence victims in Kirinyaga County now have relief after the office of the county women’s representative established a helpline.Jane Njeri Maina, county women’s representative in Kirinyaga said she has engaged some experts in her county ...

Nigeria’s Opposition People’s Democratic Party Protests Election Outcome

ABUJA, NIGERIA — Hundreds of supporters of Nigeria's opposition People's Democratic Party chanted as they marched to the national headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC, on Monday to protest the official results of the r...

More Than 100 Acres Of Rice Destroyed By Hailstones

Rice farmers in Kochia Ward, Rangwe Sub-County have been left counting losses after their crops were destroyed by heavy rains accompanied by hailstones.The farmers who were expecting to harvest and sell their produce in two weeks’ time are now left wit...

NAMCOR, Shell, and QatarEnergy announce oil discovery in Namibia

The National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (Namcor) today announced a light oil discovery in the Jonker-1X deep-water exploration well, located approximately 270 kilometres off the Namibian coast.The joint venture group is made up of Namcor with 10 ...

JSS Schools To Receive Remaining Batch Of Text Books Before End Of March

Grade 7 learners in over 2,000 Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) across the central region will have all the 12 text books before the end of March, Central Region Director of Education Sabina Aroni has said.She noted that a majority of the schools had alr...

Namibia receives recognition for progress in UNAIDS targets

Namibia received an award of recognition for remarkable progress towards reaching the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 95-95-95 targets and efforts towards ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.In a statement issued by the Mi...

Latest news

Seedlings Planted at Sikosinyana School to Honour Nujoma

Sikosinyana: In adherence to the Namibian government's call to actively promote tree planting this month to honour the legacy of late Founding President Sam Nujoma, the Sikosinyana Senior Secondary School in the Zambezi Region on Monday planted 12 see...
- Advertisement -spot_imgspot_img

Inflation Rate Drops to 3.6 Per Cent in April 2025

Windhoek: Namibia's annual inflation rate for April 2025 stood at 3.6 per cent, a decrease from the 4.8 per cent recorded in April 2024. According to Namibia Press Agency, this information was detailed in the Namibia Consumer Price Index (NCPI) for A...

Nangombe Admits Electrification Progress Slow

Ondangwa: The implementation of Namibia's electrification project is moving at a snail's pace, according to Ben Nangombe, the Executive Director of the Ministry of Mines, Energy and Industry. Nangombe said this on Tuesday during an electricity acceler...

Must read